Category: Cracked

Most religious practices look kind of ridiculous out of context. We can make fun of “wacky” foreign religions all we want, but unlike Christianity, almost none of them feature a holy foreskin. Still, we did say we can make fun of them all we want, so let’s go ahead and do that now. Full article at…

Supply and demand should ensure that we never run out of people to do the really key jobs. If there was a dire shortage of, say, potato chip flavor developers (don’t panic, this is strictly theoretical), chip companies would make the salary and perks of the job more attractive, colleges would hype up the benefits…

So after a life spent in a small town, you think you’re ready to move to the big city. If multiple talking animal movie protagonists can do it, why can’t you? Besides, you know what to expect: glitzy nightlife, exotic dining options, everyone spends all day, every day honking their horns in traffic. Well, I’ve…

I started having kids of my own at age 16. I never went to college, and by the time I was 24, I was a father of three by two different women, neither of whom I married. If that doesn’t sound like the opening lines of a Maury Povich episode, I’m not sure what does. Fortunately, I…

Crafting the complex set of laws that separate humankind from the law of the jungle is no easy task for world governments, and we don’t envy the job. But sometimes, these supposedly fully grown rulers of nations lose their shit and decide to just outright blanket ban absurd things for even more absurd reasons. For…

You’ve read so much about the music industry and its upstanding business practices that you likely think there isn’t anything else we could tell you that would come as a surprise. But some record label tactics are so covert that it takes a fair amount of digging just to find out they exist. Here are…

As the threat of global warming and other environmental catastrophes grow more and more apparent, science is looking ever more desperately for things to turn into electricity that don’t involve murdering everything horribly as a side effect. And trust us when we say nothing is off the table as far as options go. Not even…

We all think of ourselves as cynics — other people fall for scams and fraudulent sales pitches, but not us! And in fact, since society has had several thousand years of practice at recognizing con artists, you’d think we’d get pretty good at spotting them. But you’d be wrong. For a scam to succeed, it…

We are in the middle of a great cultural arms race between advertisers with tons of money and state of the art technology and the common man’s ability to ignore the ads those advertisers create. You’ve seen hundreds of ads today — how many did you actually remember? Don’t think for one second that ad…

As much as we love thinking of ourselves as the rebellious kids fighting against an oppressive society run by unreasonable old men, the truth is that most things that are illegal are illegal for a reason. Society just doesn’t enjoy your public urination as much as you do. But sometimes, the grownups get it wrong.…

Cities are all pretty much the same — just sprawling environments spiraling outward from a central hub with no particular plan or theme to speak of. But if any of these designers had had his way, every city would be a bizarre, science fiction-esque place full of strange sights, wondrous inventions and occasionally, people-movers slick…